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“After about ten minutes of a general conversation, the medium showed signs of
going into a state of "trance" and with this we witnessed an extraordinary
phenomenon: in the space of three or four minutes his face was transformed to
the point that, if I had not watched the transfiguration process in full, observing
it closely and in full light, I would not have recognized it by the same individual.
When this happened, Dr. Bancroft kissed the hands of the three ladies with
polite courtesy from the eighteenth century, and soon afterwards began his
work as a consulted physician. I was careful to say nothing about the symptoms
of my illness and its presumed nature, since he himself would describe
everything, and with that he would be able to judge whether or not he was fully
informed about it. He took one of my hands for a few moments, and then he
began to describe, in a very exact, extraordinary way, the symptoms of my
illness, which kept me under great concern. Then he asked me questions, which
implied knowledge about me that no one in the world could know. Then he
assured me that there were no organic diseases in me, but that it was a severe
Ernesto Bozzano, professor at
functional disorder, which he described in terms of physiology.
Turin University (1862 —1943)
Then he dictated the prescriptions. (…)”